We're taking the opportunity to promote a talk on Thursday 2nd August, St Magnus Centre, 7.30pm, organised by Penny Martin of Seasearch and Orkney Field Club. She has organised for George Brown, a Seasearch diver, to give a slideshow of photographs taken on the recent Seasearch dives from St Kilda, North Rona, Sule Skerry and other locations between St Kilda and Orkney, following the recent dive boat charter from Orkney to explore these wonderful remote waters. It is not quite Scapa Flow, but we know how much interest there is in underwater wildlife - it will be well worth going along!

The talk is free, but there will be a collection to help cover the costs of the room.

Seasearch is a project for volunteer sports divers who have an interest in what they're seeing under water, want to learn more and want to help protect the marine environment around the coasts of Britain and Ireland. The main aim is to map out the various types of underwater habitat around our coasts. In addition they are recording what lives in each area, establishing the richest sites for marine life, the sites where there are problems and the sites which need protection.